Theodore Victor Peticolas, born 29 February 1800 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was a fruit farmer in Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio at the time he maintained this diary. In it Peticolas details his farm work, crops, family, neighbors, and...

Official documents and correspondence of James B. Sabin, Company F, 2nd Michigan Volunteer Calvery, 1861-1863. Certificates and oath of identity, and correspondence from Camp Benton, St. Louis, Missouri, and an article from the Grand Rapids Press,...

Joseph Cospito likes working on his house, playing with his children, being a stay at home dad, and listening to books on audio tape. He is a retired science professor who is married to an episcopal priest. He discusses growing up in the fifties in...

Richard Robinson is a 26 year old homosexual who grew up in Clarkston, MI. He attended Oakland Community College from 2003-2005 and GVSU as an undergrad from 2005-2008. His undergrad was in Philosophy and anthropology. He is now a grad student...

James Morton talks about his family’s experience immigrating to the United States during the big flight of Puerto Ricans of the 1950s. He also discusses his experiences with discrimination in both Queens, New York and West Michigan.

Civil rights--Michigan--History; Indians of North America--Personal narratives; Discrimination against Indians of North America

Kristine Skippergosh is a junior at Grand Valley State University. She is of Native American descent and her father works for the city of Wyoming in Michigan. She discussed the difficulties her father faced regarding race in his early years, as...

Gamal Gasim, assistant professor of Middle East Studies and Political Science, earned his PhD in political science from Texas Tech. He teaches Introduction to Middle East Studies, Middle East politics, and comparative politics. Before Grand Valley,...

Clergy--Michigan; Reformed Church in America; Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.); Articles

An article written by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on 3/1/1986 entitled "Theological Method: The Search for a New Paradigm in a Pluralistic Age", an Article in The Reformed Review, Spring, 1986. Tags: Preaching, Theology, History of Christian Tradition,...

Clergy--Michigan; Reformed Church in America; Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.); Articles

An article written by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on 9/1/1987 entitled "Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope, by David Tracy, 1987", a Book Review, Unpublished. Tags: Postmodern, Pluralism, Religion, Mystery,Love at Core of Reality.